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New Mexican (Newspaper) - April 5, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico
THE SANTA FE Locally owned and independent Serving New Mexico for 156 years TUESDAY APRIL 5 2005 FIFTY CENTS Cardinals begin process of selecting new pontiff By LIZ SLY Chicago Tribune VATICAN CITY The General Congregation of Cardinals which met Monday for the first time since the popes death marked the infor mal start of what amounts to one of the worlds oldest election Dressed in scarlet hats and capes 65 of the 183 Cardinals who arrived in time gathered at the Vatican for the first session of the General Congrega tion of Cardinals which will run the church until a new pope is chosen Only the 117 cardinals younger than age 80 will actually choose the pope at the closeddoor conclave but that wont begin for two weeks In the meantime all the cardinals will meet daily giving them an opportunity to get to know each other size each other up and rate the credentials of potential candidates making this the unofficial start of the process It will be no ordinary election Campaigning is frowned upon and indeed any cardinal who may wish to be pope would be best advised to keep that to himself A cardinal who was seen to be preempting Gods will by promoting his own chances would be quickly shunted aside This is not a meeting of sharehold ers They are not fighting for this They are fighting for the said Saverio Gaeta editor of the Vati canbased Christian Family magazine They are churchmen and Im sure they want whats best for the There are candidates however potentially a large number because any baptized male may be chosen In practice cardinals typically choose one of their own and most Vatican watchers have reduced the likely num ber to a short list of about a dozen The element of surprise may have Please see PONTIFF Page A4 Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze attends the procession leading Pope John Paul lls body to St Peters Basilica in the Vatican on Monday when the General Congregation of Cardinals met for the first time since the popes death At right is Cardinal Bernard Francis Law The Associated Press INSIDE TODAY Tar Heels win title There was no way it was going to be easy but North Carolina did it and now its time to stop asking Roy Williams that doggone question The Tar Heels defeated Illinois 7570 a win that finally gave Williams the national championship that was missing from his otherwise stellar resume Sports Cl Native acting Following in the footsteps of famous Indian actors such as Wes Studi and Irene Bedard student actors at the Institute of American Indian Arts are part of a new generation of Indian actors Santa El Norte Bl Riling therapy gap Two behavioralhealth service providers TeamBuilders Counseling Services and Zia Behavioral Health have joined forces in a collaborative effort to provide behavioralhealth services in Santa Fe and elsewhere in the state Business Dl Todays obituaries Carmen Duran 79 Chupadero April 1 Frank R Escudero 74 Santa Fe April 3 Gilbert L Sena April 2 John Randall 68 Los Cordovas March 31 Lavon J Zachry March 30 Oliver F Bush 86 Fort Collins March 31 Margarita E Trujillo 92 Llano de San Juan April I Please see Page B2 Todays forecast Cloudy windy isolated showers High 54 low 25 Page B2 INDEX Anmns B5 Business 01 ClassitalsCA D2 Comics B6 Crossword Horoscope Local news B5 B5 Bl Lotteries B2 Movies B3 Opinion A5 Police notes B2 Scoreboard C2 Sports Cl Stocks C6 The Wests Oldest Newspaper Four sections 24 pages 156th year Issue No 95 Publication No 596440 Uate paper 9840363 Prison officers picket for pay hike JL JL o New Mexican Photos by Raul Jesus Gomez left a case worker for the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Grants and Enrique Fernan dez of the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe demonstrate outside the Capitol on Monday By BEN NEARY The New Mexican Correctional officers denied a raise in the legislative session that ended last month pick eted the New Mexico Capitol on Monday and called for the resignation of Corrections Sec retary Joe Williams Gov Bill Richardson said Monday he stands by Williams While Richardson said he had proposed a 3 percent raise for the states more than correctional officers it didnt come through Regrettably the budget was he said Members of the union represent ing states correctional workers voted 6001 to express no confi dence in Williams late last month union officers said The union is a division of the American Federa tion of State County and Municipal Employees We would actually make more money working at a WalMart than we do working at a correctional WA xffVv i v Phil Molina of the correctional facility in Grants says he would like to see a more regulated Duran Consent Decree which enforces better working con ditions for all correctional officers in the New Mexico prison system said Dominic Vigil an officer at the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility near Grants and president of the unions north western sublocal And not have to deal with the threats the diseases And go to the state fair without hav ing to watch your Lee Ortega a correctional officer at the Penitentiary of New Mexico Please see PICKET Page A3 Woman sues dads estate over nude photos Lawsuit alleges Frank Van Deren Coke now deceased exploited daughter by exhibiting images of her as child By JASON AUSLANDER The New Mexican The daughter of an acclaimed New Mexico photographer writer curator and professor is suing her fathers estate claiming pic tures he took of her as a child invaded her privacy and caused her extreme emo tional The com plaint filed Friday in District Court in Santa Fe claims Frank Van Deren Coke demanded Eleanor Browning Coke disrobe so that he could pose her and photograph the lawsuit stales Coke made many photographs of plaintiff in various stages of Browning Coke a Santa Fe County resident is seeking pos session of the photos and nega tives that depict her as well as unspecified damages Browning Coke was a minor at the time the photos were taken and therefore was not capable of giving consent according to the complaint Coke exploited the pictures of Browning Coke by having them exhibited pub licly the complaint states The continual and repeated publication and exhibition of the photographs of plaintiff has caused extreme emotional injury to plaintiff including embarrassment humiliation and emotional according to the suit filed by Albuquerque lawyers Ronald Segei and Alison L Rosner Browning Coke was not emo Please see PHOTOS Page A4 Frank Van Deren Coke Report below average in some types of health care Poverty and lack of planning put state last in prenatal care By DIANA HEIL The New Mexican Have you had your cholesterol checked in the last five years Did you get prenatal care in the first three months of pregnancy Have you women 40 and over had a mammogram in the past two years When you were hospitalized for pneumo nia did a nurse give you antibiotics within four hours When you left the hospital after a heart attack did your doctor prescribe a beta blocker In the latest comparison of the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on patient information now several years old New Mexico fared poorly in these mea sures of quality health care Last week the government unveiled a new Web site comparing the nations hospitals to each other when it comes to treating patients with cancer or heart problems On Mon day it released data from 2003 showing where states and the District of Columbia rank in 14 categories It gives consumers a pic ture based on 106 measures of what good medicine should look like The congressionally mandated report looks at cancer heart dis ease maternal and child care respiratory diseases and nursinghome care Please see HEALTH Page A4 Inside Chart compares health care in to national averages Page A4 By DIANA HEIL The New Mexican New Mexico women often arent aware they are pregnant and dont seek medical advice within the first trimester For a decade or more the state has had the worst record in the nation when it comes to women getting prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy so it came as no surprise on Monday when the National Healthcare Quality Report ranked New Mexico 51st on this measure out of 50 states and the District of Columbia New Mexico women are not into knowing when theyre said Roberta Moore maternal health program manager at the state Department of See PRENATAL Page A4
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